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Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2021
Arizona governor announces the launch of Command Center to protect state computer systems

The governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, has announced the launch of a Cyber Command Center to address the thousands of attacks that daily target government computers. The governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, has launched a Cyber Command Center to repel the huge amount of attacks that every day hit the computer systems of the state. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2021
UK newspaper The Telegraph exposed a 10TB database with subscriber data

The UK media outlet The Telegraph has leaked 10 TB of subscriber data after failing to properly secure one of its databases. The UK newspaper The Telegraph’, one of the UK’s largest newspapers and online media outlets, has leaked 10 TB of data after failing to properly secure one of its databases. The popular researcher […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2021
LANtenna attack allows exfiltrating data from Air-Gapped systems via Ethernet cables

Boffins devised a new technique, dubbed LANtenna, to exfiltrate data from systems in air-gapped networks using Ethernet cables as a “transmitting antenna.” Security researchers from the Cyber Security Research Center in the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) devised a new data exfiltration mechanism, dubbed LANtenna Attack, that leverages Ethernet cables as a “transmitting […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2021
Apache patch a zero-day flaw exploited in the wild

Apache has addressed two vulnerabilities, one of which is a path traversal and file disclosure flaw in its HTTP server actively exploited in the wild. Apache has rolled out security patches to address two flaws, including a path traversal and file disclosure issue in its HTTP server that is actively exploited in the wild. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2021
Unnamed Ransomware gang uses a Python script to encrypt VMware ESXi servers

An unnamed ransomware gang used a custom Python script to target VMware ESXi and encrypt all the virtual machines hosted on the server. Researchers from Sophos were investigating a ransomware attack when discovered that the attackers employed a Python script to encrypt virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi servers. In the attack investigated by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2021
Europol arrested 106 fraudsters, members of a major crime ring

Europol, along with Italian and Spanish police, dismantled a major crime organization linked to the Italian Mafia that focuses on online frauds. Europol, along with law enforcement agencies in Italy and Spain, has dismantled a major crime group linked to the Italian Mafia that was involved in online fraud, drug trafficking, money laundering, and property […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2021
New SOVA Android Banking trojan is rapidly growing

SOVA is a new Android banking trojan that targets banking applications, cryptocurrency wallets, and shopping apps from the U.S. and Spain. Researchers from cybersecurity firm ThreatFabric have spotted in the beginning of August a new Android banking trojan, dubbed SOVA, that targets banking applications, cryptocurrency wallets, and shopping apps from the U.S. and Spain. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2021
Microsoft warns of a zero-day in Internet Explorer that is actively exploited

Microsoft warns of a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is actively exploited by threat actors using weaponized Office docs. Microsoft warns of a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) in Internet Explorer that is actively exploited by threat actors to hijack vulnerable Windows systems. Microsoft did not share info about the attacks either the nature of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2021
Germany protests to Russia over attacks ahead of the upcoming election

Germany has protested to Russia over attempts to steal data from lawmakers and use them to spread disinformation ahead of the upcoming election. Germany has formally protested to Russia over a series of cyber attacks aimed at stealing data from lawmakers that could be used to arrange disinformation campaigns before the upcoming German election. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2021
Ragnar Locker gang threatens to leak data if victim contacts law enforcement

The Ragnar Locker ransomware operators threaten to leak stolen data if the victims attempt to contact law enforcement agencies. The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang is adopting a new technique to force victims to pay the ransom, the operators threaten to leak stolen data if the victims contact law enforcement agencies. The group announced its new […]